'I'm 57 but now men in their 20s want to date me after my body transformation'
ok.co.ukWhen Nicola Shaw, now 57, from Dumfries, Scotland ventured into a gym as a middle-aged wife and mum, she never imagined that lifting weights would give her the confidence to branch out on her own and reinvent her life after her marriage crumbled.
As my husband Peter got ready to go on a bike ride, I suddenly felt annoyed. “Do you know how easy you have it?” I said. He turned to look at me. “Don’t moan,” he retorted. “If you really wanted to do something, you’d make the time.” I was fuming.
I thought, “You have no idea.” I was juggling work, raising our son Hugo, a home renovation project, and trying to do everything society expects of mothers.
I had no identity beside being a wife and mother. I’d put myself last and let my health and fitness slip because I didn’t feel I had the motivation or time to do anything about it.
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